{"id":11887,"date":"2020-03-16T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11887"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:56:47","slug":"quote-for-the-day-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11887","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Presidents should lead by example. They should model behavior and inspire confidence. Trump failed on all counts, because \u2026 he is himself.<\/p>\n<p><SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Leading a cult is not the same as leading a country<\/span>. Presidential leadership is born of character \u2014 morality, honesty, courage, stability \u2014 traits foreign to Trump, traits to which he is actively hostile.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s thoroughly inept handling of this crisis will not pass from the American memory easily. Fear and panic will help etch this one into the psyche. This will leave a scar.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/15\/opinion\/coronavirus-trump-leadership.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charles Blow<\/a>, New York Times<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For forty years the loony right has disparaged education as elitism, struggled to embed its superstitions into the law, whined about their declining influence &#8212; and finally, in a spasm of reaction, succeeded in electing Donald Trump to the presidency.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart\u2019s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/mencken-white-house-quote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H.L. Mencken<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidents should lead by example. They should model behavior and inspire confidence. Trump failed on all counts, because \u2026 he is himself. Leading a cult is not the same as leading a country. Presidential leadership is born of character \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11890,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions\/11890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}